# This thread goes backwards **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [September 6, 2019, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-goes-backwards/839769 "2019-09-06T02:22:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2019, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-goes-backwards/839769/121 "2019-09-09T03:59:20Z")
I think I’ll put up a mirror in every room of our house. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2019, 8:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-goes-backwards/839769/122 "2019-09-09T08:04:54Z")
How do you know what you look like? ---
**Author:** ![Go\_Arachnid\_Laser\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b2d939/32.png) [@Go\_Arachnid\_Laser\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Go_Arachnid_Laser_1)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2019, 8:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-goes-backwards/839769/123 "2019-09-09T08:36:59Z")
I don’t have any mirrors in my apartment. ---
**Author:** ![Isamu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7c8e57/32.png) [@Isamu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isamu)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2019, 9:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-goes-backwards/839769/124 "2019-09-09T09:53:26Z")
PSA people, I’m gonna tell you again, the best defense against vampires is mirrors. Put em everywhere. Tell your friends! People without mirrors are either vampires or about to become vampires. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2019, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-goes-backwards/839769/125 "2019-09-09T12:57:08Z")
^ How can you tell the vampires are there? ---
**Author:** ![Cardigan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardigan/32/187_2.png) [@Cardigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardigan)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2019, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-goes-backwards/839769/126 "2019-09-09T13:36:44Z")
Thanks all for the suggestions on iguana care. I especially liked **Go\_Arachnid\_Laser** ’s suggestion that the reason my iguana has been so sluggish is because it’s eating too much, so I took it upon myself not to feed it for the past three weeks in hopes that it peps up. Doesn’t seem to be working so far, but we’ll keep at it and hope that the issue eventually resolves itself. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2019, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-goes-backwards/839769/127 "2019-09-09T15:30:07Z")
I think my iguana is a vampire. I can’t see his reflection, but it may be because I’m so weak from the bloodsucking, I can’t see straight. ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2019, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-goes-backwards/839769/128 "2019-09-09T16:08:10Z")
I mean, don’t iguanas just eat when they’re hungry? You shouldn’t have to monitor them right? ---
**Author:** ![Cardigan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardigan/32/187_2.png) [@Cardigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardigan)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2019, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-goes-backwards/839769/129 "2019-09-09T17:02:07Z")
Speaking of which, what gives y’all The Squirts? ---
**Author:** ![Find\_Friends](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c37758/32.png) [@Find\_Friends](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Find_Friends)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2019, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-goes-backwards/839769/130 "2019-09-09T17:10:36Z")
Why are you here?! ---
**Author:** ![atimnie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atimnie/32/11_2.png) [@atimnie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/atimnie)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2019, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-goes-backwards/839769/131 "2019-09-09T17:12:55Z")
Look, it’s simple, you cut a candy bar into three equal pieces, each piece is a third of the original. Are you with me so far, Sparky? Now you take those three thirds, combine them, and you’ve got one whole, right? But each third is 33.33333… percent of the whole. Combining those equals 99.99999… percent, but that doesn’t mean the candy bar is somehow less than whole. So, 99.99999… is 1, it’s just a quirk of mathematics that makes it seem like it’s not. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2019, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-goes-backwards/839769/132 "2019-09-09T17:13:23Z")
Squirts…my pet iguana has been hiding for days. ---
**Author:** ![Cardigan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardigan/32/187_2.png) [@Cardigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardigan)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2019, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-goes-backwards/839769/133 "2019-09-09T17:17:43Z")
I keep telling you it all comes down to what the Colonel announced as he stood on the precipice of that volcano…namely, “I will feed this iguana insects, but the number of insects must be a WHOLE NUMBER!” 0.99999999 is not a whole number. ---
**Author:** ![Find\_Friends](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c37758/32.png) [@Find\_Friends](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Find_Friends)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2019, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-goes-backwards/839769/134 "2019-09-09T17:55:19Z")
> [@Go\_Arachnid\_Laser](#): > > Are the mods erasing posts? Probably not. I cancelled a couple of mine because I wasn’t replying to the most recent post. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2019, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-goes-backwards/839769/135 "2019-09-09T18:07:11Z")
Has anyone cancelled a post lately? ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2019, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-goes-backwards/839769/136 "2019-09-09T18:20:13Z")
There seems to be holes in this discussion. ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2019, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-goes-backwards/839769/137 "2019-09-09T23:23:22Z")
**Beckdawreck** , what is your opinion of this discussion? ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2019, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-goes-backwards/839769/138 "2019-09-10T01:05:47Z")
I think this discussion seems to be going in circles; but I wonder what others think. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2019, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-goes-backwards/839769/139 "2019-09-10T01:13:11Z")
I always thought the joy of reading a book is not knowing what happens next. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2019, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-goes-backwards/839769/140 "2019-09-10T01:13:50Z")
Didn’t we answer that question at least two pages ago? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-goes-backwards/839769.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-goes-backwards/839769.md?page=8)